See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!

Judah has been taken away as a prisoner because of trouble and hard work her living-place is among the nations, there is no rest for her: all her attackers have overtaken her in a narrow place.

Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.

Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.

In her skirts were her unclean ways she gave no thought to her end and her fall has been a wonder she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord for the attacker is lifted up.

Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note for she has become a thing of shame.

From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

The Lord has made sport of all my men of war in me, he has got men together against me to send destruction on my young men: the virgin daughter of Judah has been crushed like grapes under the feet of the Lord.

Zion's hands are outstretched she has no comforter the Lord has given orders to the attackers of Jacob round about him: Jerusalem has become like an unclean thing among them.

I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.

Give ear to the voice of my grief I have no comforter all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.

In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.

The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

The Lord has given up his altar and has been turned in hate from his holy place he has given up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses: their voices have been loud in the house of the Lord as in the day of a holy meeting.

Her doors have gone down into the earth he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.

What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you well?

All who go by make a noise with their hands at you they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

The Lord has done that which was his purpose he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.

Up! give cries in the night, at the starting of the night-watches let your heart be flowing out like water before the face of the Lord, lifting up your hands to him for the life of your young children who are falling down, feeble for need of food, at the top of every street.

The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.

Jesus said these things then, lifting his eyes to heaven, he said, Father, the time has now come give glory to your Son, so that the Son may give glory to you:

And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.

And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.

Now it is clear to them that whatever you have given to me comes from you:

My prayer is for them: my prayer is not for the world, but for those whom you have given to me, because they are yours

And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one.

And now I come to you and these things I say in the world so that they may have my joy complete in them.

My prayer is not that you will take them out of the world, but that you will keep them from the Evil One.

Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word.

And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.

May they all be one! Even as you, Father, are in me and I am in you, so let them be in us, so that all men may come to have faith that you sent me.

I in them, and you in me, so that they may be made completely one, and so that it may become clear to all men that you have sent me and that they are loved by you as I am loved by you.

Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not and to these it is clear that you sent me